Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-07


left III BIS charge.
The Pittsburg coal operators at
Chicago met and declared they will not
accept the railroad coal rates to the
lakes, which have been raised from IS
to 50 cents ton.
The people of village in China in
weighed party of three hundred
tramps into a temple, and during the
night applied the torch. Only forty of
the number escaped
Joel w. Kellogg, a prominent poll
tlclan OF Elkhart, Indiana, has been
sentenced to three years in the peni-
Tertiary for embeZzling S11 900 from a
building association.
Constable Pierce, at DeS MONIES. re-
fuses to surrender to the United States
marshal, on Federal writs of replevin,
the liquor seized i'll the drug store of
Rurlbut, Hess & Co.
Some person unknown bought draft
for 81 1896 at st. Joseph, Missouri. and
forwarded it to the secretary of the
treasury to be placed to the credit of
an unknown debtor.
A jury at Boston, in the case against
William Hogarty for keeping barber
shop open on Sunday, decided that
shaving on the Lords day is not work
OF necessity or Cndr1Cy.
A suit brought in Detroit to obtain
an Interpretation of the will of Fran
els Palms. covering an estate of at
contest by the daughter
In order to defeat the peoples ticket
at Racine, Wisconsin, the democrats
and republicans have united upon D.
A. Olin for mayor. and placed a full
joint ticket in the field.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was the pur-
chaser of Rosa Bonheur's famous
work, 1.-The Horse Fair at the Stew
art sale, for $50, 900, and presented it to
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Sentences of imprisonment of from
one to twenty years have been imposed
upon thirteen anarchists at Vienna
who plotted to fire the city and blow up
the imperial palace with dynamite.
The strike of the silk dyers at Pat
erson, N. j., has come to an end. The
men accepted the new schedule of the
bosses after SIX weeks idleness, and
no concessions of any kind were made
them.
The lord mayor of Dublin and Arch
bishop Croke led vast procession
Ryan and Slattery to jail for refusing
to divulge details of the plan of cam
paign.
A train about to be placed on the
Lake Shore route between Chicago and
New York is to be equipped with a
bathroom, barber-Shop, library, and
electric lights, and possibly heated by
steam.
The American Bell Telephone COM
pany already has 2,613 miles of wire
underground. 1t will soon establish
service between New York and Phila-
delphia, and then from New York to
Boston.
Captain G. E. Dutton, of the geo.
logical survey, in studying upon the
Charleston earthquake, ascertained
that the waves travelled between four
thousand and five thousand meters per
second.
A bill has been introduced in the New
| L DIRK assembly to- UnotI tor Oil aQueQucJ
company, with a capital of S60, 1000, 900,
to furnish water from the Adirondack
region to the Hudson river valley and
New York.
T. N. Williamson, Secretary of the
Wisconsin Shoe company, at James
vile, has been arrested for the embez-
element of $4,000, but the concern is
said to have lost 100000 at the hands
of thieves.
Professor MCGEE of the Geological
Survey says the Charleston earthquake
covered an area OF 1850 900 square
miles, and extended from Canada to
Cuba, and from the Mississippi to the
Bermudas.
The real-estate transfers at Louis
vile last week amounted to 81, %, 900.
and the recorders clerks are two weeks
behind in their work. 1t is fifteen
years since similar movement was
experienced.
About one hundred clerks in the
transfer station of the PENNSYLVANIA
road at Pittsburg will be discharged at
the end of the month, and all freight
will hereafter be shipped through to
it's destination.
The committee of twenty-five of the
united labor party of Chicago has de-
cided to make no fusion with the
democracy, but to consider the repub-
lican ticket as the only opposition to
be encountered.
w. A. Comyn, the inventor of a fire.
escape, while giving an exhibition of
his appliance at Buffalo, was preclpi-
tated from a third-StOry window by the
giving way of hook, and received Sc
rlous injuries.
The directors of the Union Pacific
road propose to go before the Inter-
state commerce commission with def
mite proposal for the final adjustment
OF the company's financial relations
to the treasury.
Harvey l.. Leavitt, of Sioux City,
one Of the parties to the CO spiracy to
murder Rev. George G. Haddock, has
turned states evidence and testified
on Monday that the fatal shot was
fired by John Arensdorf.
In blowing in a field about three
miles from Atlanta, Georgia, s1.190
was plowed up in SIS gold pieces. The
treasure is supposed to have been
buried there before the war by some
person who has since died
The largest flour manufacturer in
Canada is endeavoring to secure from
his government reduction of freight
rates on the Intercolonial road in the
hope Of taking the trade of the West
Indies from American millers.
The strike of the yard and road
brakemen on the Mahoning division of
the New York, Pennsylvania s. Ohio